Zucchini Ball: description, photos, reviews

Content

1 Characteristics of the variety
2 Recommendations for cultivation
3 Reviews

Thanks to breeders, today's gardeners have a huge selection of seeds for zucchini and other crops. If previously all the zucchini were all white and elongated, today their appearance can be very surprising. In addition to zucchini of exotic shades, interesting forms of this vegetable can also be found in the plots. A bright representative of varieties round shape is the Zucchini Ball.

Characteristics of the variety

Ball is an early ripening variety with compact, non-branched bushes. Its dissected leaves are pale green with slight spotting. The description of this variety of zucchini is hidden in the name. Like a ball, it has a spherical shape. There is slight ribbing at the base of the zucchini. Its green skin is covered with small dots several shades lighter. On average, zucchini can grow from 0.8 to 2.1 kg. The variety is characterized not only by excellent presentation, but also by excellent taste. Zucchini Ball seems to be specially created for stuffing. The dry matter in them will be from 4 to 5.5%, and the sugar will not exceed 2.6.

Advice! Zucchini weighing up to 200 grams are ideal for stuffing.

A distinctive feature of this variety is its cold resistance. Ball's disease resistance can be described as average. He has immunity, but as a preventive measure it is better to treat the plants against the most basic diseases.

Recommendations for cultivation

The best areas for planting the Ball will be sunny and protected from the wind areas. Wherein? it is not particularly picky about the soil. But it will be better to grow on sandy and loamy soils, pre-fertilized with mineral and organic fertilizers.

Important! It is recommended to apply organic fertilizers to the soil in the fall or at least several months before planting. The soil can be enriched with mineral fertilizers a month before planting the crop.

During this time, fertilizers will be able to sufficiently decompose and saturate the soil with useful substances.

Zucchini variety Ball can be planted:

Through seedlings, which begin to be prepared from the beginning of April.
Through planting seeds in open ground. With this method, the seeds are planted to a depth of up to 3 cm. The seed planting period is from early to mid-May.

Harvesting takes place from July to September.

This variety has moderate resistance to common squash diseases such as powdery mildew and anthracnose. Therefore, when the first signs of the disease occur, it is recommended to carry out the following treatment:

For powdery mildew, a suspension of colloidal sulfur should be used. Repeated treatment is carried out after 2-3 weeks.
For anthracnose, plants are sprayed with Bordovskaya liquid, copper oxychloride or ground sulfur.

Important! All disease control products should be diluted only in the proportions recommended by the manufacturer. Dosages “by eye” are not allowed.

Reviews

Nadezhda, 42 years old, Dubna

I planted the Myachik variety for the first time. I really liked the picture of the zucchini on the seed package. I planted it directly in the garden in May, without germination. The bushes were very compact. Due to the fact that the leaves puffed up in different directions, the bush also looked like a ball.Zucchini formed in the center of the bush and ripened 2 pieces per day. In this case, only ripe zucchini are inflated. Unripe zucchini has a slightly elongated shape. They bore fruit for me until mid-September, then the first frosts came, and I removed them. They taste great. We canned and stuffed them. I will definitely plant more.

Tamara, 34 years old, Zhukovsky

I have been planting the Myachik variety for three years now. What I like most about it is its yield and taste. Zucchini bushes are compact and produce a lot of ovaries. There are a lot of zucchini produced and they ripen quickly. They taste very delicate. In all three years we only suffered from powdery mildew once. Because of this, the zucchini harvest was slightly smaller. I can recommend the Ball variety.

Galina, 50 years old, Ivanteevka

The squash variety Ball is good and productive. There have never been any problems with the germination of seeds of this zucchini. We eat this type of zucchini fresh and do not put it in jars. They are very tasty, especially young ones.